National People's Party ( NPP ) president Conrad Sangma on Tuesday took oath as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya, a day after staking claim to form the government with support of 34 MLAs in the 60-member Assembly. The BJP on Saturday wrested Tripura, and received an invitation to be part of the government in Nagaland. Together with BJP they equal ...

In December, Macron said he would push for the age of sexual consent and the presumption of rape to both be set at 15, saying: "Our criminal law contains intolerable ambiguities". She said: "We want to fix an age in the law below which it's always forbidden to have sex with children, with young girls, below which it's always considered as a rape"...

Boise police confirmed that officers responded to reports of an "unruly passenger" aboard the flight . She was later handed over to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare for further psychiatric evaluation. Smith added that he heard the woman rambling phrases such as "God has all the data", and "I don't have any data", as well as "We landed ...

The government said it was imposing the state of emergency after police failed to curb violence in Kandy, where mobs of Sinhalese burned mosques, homes and businesses belonging to Muslims. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe also ordered an investigation into alleged police inaction in handling the clash. Muslims make up about 10% of Sri Lanka's...

Johan van Zyl, president and chief executive officer of Toyota Motor Europe told journalists: 'Toyota will stop selling diesel passenger cars in all European markets by the end of this year. Meanwhile sales of Toyota's hybrid models have risen sharply. In addition to the hybrid versions, the all-new Auris will offer a single conventional engine...

China also condemned the move, with a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson saying: "If all countries followed the example of the United States, [it] will undoubtedly result in a serious impact on the worldwide trade order". Ms Malmström told the BBC: "We are looking at possibilities to retaliate, meaning we will also put taxes or tariffs on Uni...

The court is expected to be closed to the media and the public for up to two weeks while complainants give evidence, which is standard in sexual offence committal hearings in Victoria. "A committal hearing has a similar goal to a Grand Jury hearing in the US", Gans explained. Pell's lawyers told the court last month that the allegations stemmed f...

The United States has long accused Russian Federation of breaching the INF treaty and, while it is modernizing its own nuclear arsenal, says that it remains in compliance with the terms of the Cold War accord. Putin contended that he can not take action unless it goes "through official channels, not through the press or yelling and hollering in t...

Indeed, the president said at the summit that he would be unveiling specific policies to tackle the drugs crisis in the coming weeks. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will also speak on a later panel, amid tension with the president following a tweet from Trump Thursday that described Sessions' actions as "disgraceful".

Sawadogo said if the meeting had taken place in that room, "our army would have been beheaded". "Stay hidden where you are", the French Embassy wrote in a Facebook post Friday morning. Macron, who made a high-profile visit to Burkina Faso in November, said the attacks "illustrate once more the threat weighing on the entire Sahel region".

A Placer County Sheriff spokeswoman said deputies responded to the resort around 2:15 p.m.to help out, but she was told everyone had escaped the avalanche. Police are continuing to investigate the death of a snowboarder found nearby at the resort, but the body was recovered before the avalanche hit, according to officials.

ULA's current and heritage Atlas and Delta rockets have launched every GOES satellite, first launching in 1975. It's meant to boost cooperation between NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ) in forecasting, monitoring and responding to extreme weather events in the United States.

ICE responded to Schaaf's warning with a brief statement . By Tuesday the agency confirmed it did indeed conduct an operation and blamed Schaaf for likely allowing many "targets" to slip away. "It is Oakland's legal right to be a sanctuary city ". "We believe our community is safer when families stay together", she stated. They're bringing drug...

The EB-1 program is reserved for people such as academics, global business executives, Olympic athletes and award-winning actors who have shown "sustained national and worldwide acclaim, "the Washington Post reports ". Another immigration expert, Sarah Pierce of the Migration Policy Institute, said to meet the "extraordinary ability" category of ...

According to the Fox report, the images show several tall silos, which could be used to store missiles . According to the Syrian outlet, the facility itself is a "training camp of the regime's Special Forces" and the buildings in question are not a missile warehouse, mosque, or dining hall but rather a garage for army vehicles.

Mr. Erdogan kissed her on both cheeks, but by then she was in tears. Algeria's oil and gas company Sonatrach has agreed with Turkish firms Ronesans and Bayegan to build a petrochemical facility worth $1 billion in Turkey, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

A top Israeli military official accused a celebrated Palestinian family of taking the world for a ride Monday, claiming that a teen suffered an injury from falling off a bike and not an IDF-fired rubber bullet, but medical records released by the family disprove the charges of chicanery.

US President Donald Trump, who was a guest at Graham's 95 birthday celebration in Asheville, is expected to be present at the funeral. Thousands of mourners and well-wishers lined the streets in North Carolina Saturday to see a 10-car motorcade with a hearse carrying the body of the Rev.

Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the attack happened around 8:30 a.m. local time near the Kabul Green Zone, approximately one kilometer (about half a mile) away from where the US Embassy, NATO and other diplomatic compounds are located.